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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#187  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsplicemachine.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splice MachineDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2014198420142000
Current release2.0, September 20197.4.1.1, 20213.1, March 20213.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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